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10 Awesome Blockbusters That Deserved More Oscar Love

Earlier this year, the inherent king of the box office, James Cameron, had a lot to say about the Academy and their alleged “bias” towards big blockbusters, not “rewarding the films that people really want to see.” He connects the annual award show’s declining ratings to the idea that the members of the Academy use it to propagate movies audiences aren’t that interested in – the last Best Picture winner to gross over $100 million was Argo in 2013.

Back To The Future

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Back to the Future is the one of the best of its kind. I feel safe saying that most people agree on that point. However, when it came out back in 1985, no one – including director Robert Zemeckis – expected it to turn out as well as it did.

I have conversations with people all the time about how hard it is to tell if a new film will become a classic (the debate sprung up in discussion of Dunkirk, neither me nor my friend thought that it will be one of the great war movies). I suppose the Academy had the same issue with Back to the Future, recognizing it primarily as a teen comedy, as opposed to a science fiction chef-d’oeuvre.

The film earned four nominations, with only one in the “Big Five” categories (Writing, which it did not win). Like Raiders of the Lost Ark, there aren’t many movies as iconic in American culture as this, with few lines as memorable as “I’m your density” or “are you telling me that you built a time machine…out of a DeLorean?”